Ascension Day
We saw his light break through the cloud of glory
Whilst we were rooted still in time and place,
As earth became a part of heaven’s story
And heaven opened to his human face.
We saw him go and yet we were not parted,
He took us with him to the heart of things,
The heart that broke for all the broken-hearted
Is whole and heaven-centered now, and sings;
Sings the strength that rises out of weakness,
Sings through the clouds that veil him from our sight,
While we ourselves become his clouds of witness
And sing the waning darkness into light;
His light in us, and ours in him concealed,
Which all creation waits to see revealed.
From Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year
by Malcom Guite
Bernhard Shunemann
13 May 2018
